Word up.
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> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 7:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] HEADER QUESTION
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>
> Gentlemen If I might intercede.
>
> The RFCs says what the standards are and are not. I fail
> to see where
> there is any implication as to trust or security. The RFCs is but a
> standard. Email headers at their inception may have been
> intended as a
> trust worthy, but unfortunately they have been forged,
> hacked, and abused
> beyond anything foreseeable when the RFCs were initially written.
>
> Since then they have become unreliable and due to the
> inseption of the
> black list by the Unix mafia, a hazard to any mail server
> that uses them to
> validate senders. Any server relying on them, if found out,
> will shortly
> have John and Bobby Kennedy spamming away along with Jimmy
> Hoffa. Shortly
> there after they will come to the attention of one or the other of the
> non-govermental Email vigilanties and be added to their
> database of open
> relay/blocked servers. After that it will only be a short
> while before
> their server becomes a meer electronic paperweight on the WWW.
>
> Like it or not that is the way of the world wide web. It
> ain't right
> but it is reality.
>
> Now can we move on to something more productive before I
> go into another
> rant?
>
> Kevin Childers
>
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